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Grandmother
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Yaaba is a 1989 Burkinabé drama film written, produced, and directed by Idrissa Ouedraogo, "one of the best known films from francophone sub-Saharan Africa". It won the Sakura Gold prize at the 1989 Tokyo Film Festival. The film was selected as the Burkinabé entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 62nd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
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6.6A small African village. The story focuses on Bila, a ten year old boy who befriends an old woman, Sana. Everybody calls her 'Witch' but Bila himself calls her 'Yaaba' (grandmother). When Bila's cousin Nopoko gets sick it is Sana's medicine that saves her.
Cast
- Fatimata Sanga as Yaaba
- Noufou Ouédraogo as Bila
- Roukietou Barry as Nopoko
- Adama Ouédraogo as Kougri
- Amadé Toure as Tibo
- Sibidou Ouédraogo as Poko
Themes
- africa
- witchcraft
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Ratings
IMDb
7.1/10
784 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
88%
- Year
- 1989
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Awards
- 3 wins & 4 nominations
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Key facts
- Film.name
- Yaaba
- Film.image
- Yaaba.jpg
- Film.caption
- Film poster
- Film.director
- Idrissa Ouedraogo
- Film.producer
- Arcadia Films, Les Films de l'avenir, Télévision suisse romande, Thelma Film AG
- Film.writer
- Idrissa Ouedraogo
- Film.screenplay
- Idrissa Ouédraogo
- Film.starring
- Fatimata Sanga, Noufou Ouedraogo, Roukietou Barry, Adama Ouedraogo, Amadé Tour
- Film.music
- Francis Bebey
- Film.cinematography
- Matthias Kälin
- Film.editing
- Loredana Cristelli
- Film.distributor
- New Yorker Films (U.S.)
- Film.runtime
- 90 minutes
- Film.country
- Burkina FasoSwitzerlandFrance
- Film.language
- Mòoré
- Film.gross
- $55,000
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- Burkina Faso
- Original language
- Mooré
- Director
- Idrissa Ouédraogo
- Screenwriter
- Idrissa Ouédraogo
- Composer
- Francis Bebey
- Narrative location
- Burkina Faso
- FilmAffinity ID
- 967978
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- publication date
- 1990-02-01
- title
- Yaaba
- review score
- 8.5/10
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Plot
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- References
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Yaaba is a 1989 Burkinabé drama film written, produced, and directed by Idrissa Ouedraogo, "one of the best known films from francophone sub-Saharan Africa". It won the Sakura Gold prize at the 1989 Tokyo Film Festival. The film was selected as the Burkinabé entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 62nd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
The film was the subject of a short documentary Parlons Grand-mère, which was shot during the film's production by Djibril Diop Mambéty.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Grandmother” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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